Slavick received a BA from
Sarah Lawrence College and a MFA in photography from the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. Her published books include
Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography (with a forward from
Howard Zinn) and
After Hiroshima (with an essay by
James Elkins). She was once represented by Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2018, she has published a chapbook of
Surrealist poems entitled
Cameramouth (SurVision Books, Ireland.) She published Holding History In Our Hand on the 75th commemoration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The book was commissioned by the Peace Resource Center at Wilmington College in Ohio. A video adaptation of the book was commissioned for the 80th commemoration for the exhibition Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience at Wilmington College in 2025. Slavick collaborated with Madeleine Richardson on the film, Holding History in Our Hand. == Personal life ==